Post by Administrator on Dec 12, 2010 18:08:37 GMT -5
A sweltering sun is pouring down over a Texas grassland, and the music's been singing in your ears for so long you can't imagine sound without it. The spirits are high and the atmosphere is sublime.
Welcome to the Syrinx Music Festival.
Organized for the first time in 1989, it started out as a small scale one-day event for promising yet not all that big indie bands, with an intended vibe of a more modern Woodstock. The first couple of years, it just barely managed to raise enough money for the organizers to be able to pull it off again the next year. In 1995, however, Pilots of Death, one of the bands that had their first real breakthrough thanks to business connection made at the festival during their second year of performing there, decided to return to the cradle of their success, and in doing so brought quite a bit of attention to the festival, with the mainstream audience starting to take notice.
Since then, the festival has expanded greatly in both audience and genres, as well as in length - lasting three days, Thursday through Saturday - and is now one of the bigger festivals in the country, with the record number of visitors being 60.400 in 2007. All kinds of people flock at the annual event, nowadays offering everything from the smallest indie band to the newest hip club DJ, from a "lowly" demo metal band to the bigger pop sensations.
Take on the role as a solo artist or be part of a band, play a visitor or a member of the festival staff, and delve into the vibrant pulse of life for a few intense days at a summer music festival, where mundane everyday obligations are naught, and you can let your hair down, and go wild.
Enjoy the ride!
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"The Syrinx Festival" is a play-by-post roleplay centered around a fictional summer music festival, like that of Hullabalou (US), Lollapalooza (US), Big Day Out (Australia), Roskilde (Denmark) and Pukkelpop (Belgium). You do not have to have attended any such festival in order to participate. All info you'll need will be found on this board, and if you ever have questions, feel free to ask, either in this thread or through PM's.
New players are always welcome, so please do not be intimidated by the fact that the roleplay has already been going on for a while; we've just started fresh on an entirely new day, the first official one of the festival. All that has been roleplayed before this, has been the launch party, on the night before the opening day. You'll find a brief synopsis of the events here, for those who want to create a character with ties to an already established one. New players are more than welcome to approach one of the currents players to do so, as a way of easily finding a way into the story; you could be someone's friend, lover, groupie, band member, sister, brother, niece, etc etc. The possibilities are endless.
Also, if any of the current players have grown bored of their character and wants to replace him/her, it is quite alright to do so. All we ask is that you give it some serious thought before you do, and don't replace your character every other week. This is only meant to serve as a way to refresh creativity, when a player feels he/she has taken their character as far as they can go, and no longer feel they have anything left to do with them.
Welcome to the Syrinx Music Festival.
Organized for the first time in 1989, it started out as a small scale one-day event for promising yet not all that big indie bands, with an intended vibe of a more modern Woodstock. The first couple of years, it just barely managed to raise enough money for the organizers to be able to pull it off again the next year. In 1995, however, Pilots of Death, one of the bands that had their first real breakthrough thanks to business connection made at the festival during their second year of performing there, decided to return to the cradle of their success, and in doing so brought quite a bit of attention to the festival, with the mainstream audience starting to take notice.
Since then, the festival has expanded greatly in both audience and genres, as well as in length - lasting three days, Thursday through Saturday - and is now one of the bigger festivals in the country, with the record number of visitors being 60.400 in 2007. All kinds of people flock at the annual event, nowadays offering everything from the smallest indie band to the newest hip club DJ, from a "lowly" demo metal band to the bigger pop sensations.
Take on the role as a solo artist or be part of a band, play a visitor or a member of the festival staff, and delve into the vibrant pulse of life for a few intense days at a summer music festival, where mundane everyday obligations are naught, and you can let your hair down, and go wild.
Enjoy the ride!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"The Syrinx Festival" is a play-by-post roleplay centered around a fictional summer music festival, like that of Hullabalou (US), Lollapalooza (US), Big Day Out (Australia), Roskilde (Denmark) and Pukkelpop (Belgium). You do not have to have attended any such festival in order to participate. All info you'll need will be found on this board, and if you ever have questions, feel free to ask, either in this thread or through PM's.
New players are always welcome, so please do not be intimidated by the fact that the roleplay has already been going on for a while; we've just started fresh on an entirely new day, the first official one of the festival. All that has been roleplayed before this, has been the launch party, on the night before the opening day. You'll find a brief synopsis of the events here, for those who want to create a character with ties to an already established one. New players are more than welcome to approach one of the currents players to do so, as a way of easily finding a way into the story; you could be someone's friend, lover, groupie, band member, sister, brother, niece, etc etc. The possibilities are endless.
Also, if any of the current players have grown bored of their character and wants to replace him/her, it is quite alright to do so. All we ask is that you give it some serious thought before you do, and don't replace your character every other week. This is only meant to serve as a way to refresh creativity, when a player feels he/she has taken their character as far as they can go, and no longer feel they have anything left to do with them.